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00:00:00Laboratory for a very thorough test of your water and as you can see here
00:00:06this is actually a warning. Health risk exists. I left here a few years ago
00:00:15thinking we were heroes and now we find out today I was wrong. In the rugged
00:00:24Wyoming Hill Country... We've got threats coming from everywhere. The Black
00:00:28Family's rescue two years ago was a story of triumph... That water is coming from the well.
00:00:34...over tragedy... It's the craziest thing I've ever heard on any home set.
00:00:40...but in the past year... Oh my gosh this is from hail? Yeah. No way.
00:00:44...catastrophic weather, crumbling infrastructure... It started as freezing rain and the next thing you knew the coop collapsed.
00:00:52...and a life-threatening water mystery... We can't use it in the house or for ourselves at all.
00:00:57...have overwhelmed the family and wiped out their food supply.
00:01:01That's not something I want for my family.
00:01:03I'd like to feel like I'm not just trying to survive through it anymore.
00:01:08Now with Winter once again promising destructive conditions, Marty responds to their new cry for help.
00:01:16The pendulum is swinging. We're running out of time.
00:01:19To put the Black Family back on the path to success before it's too late.
00:01:25And now run!
00:01:27The fact that you killed somebody.
00:01:29Coming in, look out!
00:01:31When you drive around in rural Wyoming, you're reminded that this is the least populated state.
00:01:46First time I ever drove down this road right here, it was in the middle of summer.
00:01:52Right now, winter's coming.
00:02:02I'm Jody Lundgren.
00:02:03I'm Jamie Black.
00:02:04We live here in Black Hills of Wyoming with Jody's sister and our two kids.
00:02:10We inherited this place in 2006.
00:02:15The original dream for this property that my parents had was to be self-sufficient and be able to take care of themselves.
00:02:23But my parents passed away before they were able to finish.
00:02:26It was devastating for a while.
00:02:31I mean, we really wanted it to work and it just, we weren't seeing a way.
00:02:35You know, and then the Rainies visited that first time and we got our footing.
00:02:41And with that, I was able to attack this homestead with a new passion.
00:02:50I was able to achieve things that I had just dreamt about previously.
00:02:57We've done some landscaping, some permacultural swales.
00:03:02We've been able to add more livestock and infrastructure.
00:03:06We've been able to be a part of our community and sell our goods through the farmer's market to our community members.
00:03:13But despite their successes, weather conditions have become more extreme than they've prepared for each year.
00:03:22And the Blacks have struggled to adapt.
00:03:27In the winter, we can get 48 inches of snow and 70 mile per hour gusts.
00:03:34The hail has been a huge problem that we really didn't anticipate.
00:03:38When the hail storm wiped out our garden, we were left with Misty's greenhouse as our primary source.
00:03:46It was hard to feed the entire family on that.
00:03:50You know, there's just so many threats.
00:03:53Even just the other day, we had a day-long rain event in mid-November and my ducks were out in it all day.
00:04:01And the couple must have been off by themselves and they just, you know, they basically froze.
00:04:06They were too wet and cold.
00:04:11But the family's difficulty producing food is the least of their new problems.
00:04:17I started noticing with the well water that my seedlings weren't growing.
00:04:23And, you know, then I started noticing some livestock digestion issues.
00:04:29It was hard on the confidence because I'm like, other people can do this.
00:04:32I mean, even in Misty's greenhouse, the water's a challenge there.
00:04:37It didn't thrive.
00:04:38It wasn't thriving as much as we thought it should be.
00:04:43I mean, at a certain point, ends don't meet.
00:04:46You don't have enough hours in the day to compensate for systems that aren't functioning correctly.
00:04:58Without the ability to safely raise livestock, without the ability to grow crops, you're one step closer to falling out of homesteading.
00:05:09My kids, that's not something I want them to do.
00:05:14It's so important for them to see that it can be done, finally.
00:05:18They'll be adults soon enough and be making decisions about this place.
00:05:22So if we don't, you know, really show it to them now, we don't have much time left.
00:05:27Marty, I could really use your help.
00:05:31Hello.
00:05:34I gotta say, Wyoming homesteaders are very fortunate people.
00:05:39It's beautiful.
00:05:41How long has it been since I've been here?
00:05:43Two years?
00:05:44Yeah, about two years.
00:05:45All right.
00:05:46Well, have they all been good days in the last two years?
00:05:49There's been some challenges.
00:05:51Like what?
00:05:52Um, hailstorms taking out gardens for one.
00:05:56Was it all across Wyoming or just here?
00:05:59You know, out here it's microclimates and you never know if you're going to be in the spot where it's going to dump.
00:06:05A microclimate is a weather condition confined to a relatively small area, ranging from a few square feet to several miles.
00:06:15The unique geological features of the Black Hills, combined with the temperature extremes found in the region, can produce an intense variety of meteorological events such as deadly hailstorms, heavy rain, and even unannounced snowfall.
00:06:33The changes in the last several years have seen increased volatility in conditions, bringing colder winters, devastating storms, and hotter, drier summers.
00:06:48I mean, we've had other hailstorms, but just this most recent summer it knocked our garden out about that time of year where it's too late to start over, so.
00:06:56It can get to be baseball, you know, bigger grapefruit even.
00:06:59It took the leaves off of almost everything.
00:07:01Is it already snowed?
00:07:02Oh yeah.
00:07:03Yes, for sure.
00:07:04We had eight to ten inches of wet heavy stuff.
00:07:06You know, that's the thing for both the livestock and the gardens is you can have snow in June, and we did in May.
00:07:13That May snowstorm took out our hoop coop.
00:07:16It started as freezing rain, so with the coop, it just, that freezing rain stuck and then it started falling off the trees and the next thing you knew the coop collapsed and I had some losses and so we had to totally rebuild that because of the weather.
00:07:29Those animals keep my family alive.
00:07:32To have a hail event or any weather event destroy your garden or lose some livestock, that very potentially could be a meal that one or some of us have to skip and that's, that's not something I'm going to do for my children.
00:07:48So it's, you know, those issues need to be resolved.
00:07:53Well, it's put away for winter for now.
00:07:56Other than that, this is the garden that got beat down and destroyed by the hail storm.
00:08:01And I'm not 100% sure I can show you in Misty's greenhouse that there might be something wrong with that water.
00:08:09There's an awful lot of buildup on those pipes.
00:08:11Copy that.
00:08:12It's getting seedlings started and that made it, you know, that's why you're looking at an empty garden instead of obvious plants in every row.
00:08:19Though the water quality is in question now, two years ago, Misty brought fertilized water to the greenhouse via a special aquaponics system.
00:08:30So aquaponics uses fish waste as fertilizer.
00:08:33I'm just putting my own little homestead twist on that and using ducks for that fertilizer.
00:08:40You have your 16 gallon ish reservoir and this ladder system that's basically feeding itself with this perfect fertilized water.
00:08:48So now we're ready for plants.
00:08:53But since that time, something has changed and the aquaponics system isn't working like it should.
00:09:00Okay. What am I looking at here, please?
00:09:02This is the hydroponic system and so it's a great example of concentrated water.
00:09:12Wow.
00:09:13These were your attempts to start seeds.
00:09:14Right. And so when seedlings get this big and die, it's hard to...
00:09:20That's amazing.
00:09:23Wow. What is this crust on top?
00:09:25Yeah.
00:09:26Yeah, that's whatever is in the water.
00:09:29Did anything ever grow?
00:09:31When we used potable water.
00:09:34Do we have sulfur?
00:09:35Do we have salt?
00:09:36I don't know.
00:09:37So we wanted to test this first.
00:09:39This water problem is still plaguing this homestead.
00:09:43And that's bad news for me.
00:09:51Oh my gosh, this is from Hale?
00:09:52Yeah.
00:09:53No way.
00:09:54Yeah.
00:09:55That was the storm.
00:09:56That's thick.
00:09:57Yeah.
00:09:58That looks dangerous.
00:09:59Has it ever killed an animal here?
00:10:00Chicken, bird, duck?
00:10:01We lost maybe 10 meat birds that couldn't get under anything in town.
00:10:06Wow.
00:10:07That's actually tragic and that's actually very telling.
00:10:10I'm glad you showed me that.
00:10:11Yeah.
00:10:18Do these chickens go to the roost every night?
00:10:20Yep.
00:10:21They are trained.
00:10:22Yes.
00:10:23Why is there an egg right there?
00:10:24And why is there an egg right there?
00:10:26Yes.
00:10:27So we've used different nesting boxes, but because they were in a different area, then we moved
00:10:33them here and we're about to move them over there.
00:10:37Can you show me the nesting box area, whatever the plan is?
00:10:40Yeah.
00:10:41After you, please.
00:10:42Last time I was here in Wyoming, these guys did not have chickens, but they do now because
00:10:48I see eggs all over the place.
00:10:50I think it's time that I get the latest poop on Where's the Coop.
00:10:57So I got enough here to make an omelet.
00:11:00Tell me what I'm looking at right now, please.
00:11:02So we just have these little crates that we put in there.
00:11:07So these are what we're going to be using for nesting boxes.
00:11:11We're going to just put some straw in, but we're kind of waiting to move them over to
00:11:17their new area.
00:11:18Let's go look at the place that you're going to move these, and that's where the ducks
00:11:23are, right?
00:11:24Yep.
00:11:27All right, so what are we looking at here?
00:11:31This was the original hoop coop that Matt built, right?
00:11:36So we moved the ducks over there, extended this all the way out, and then rebuilt this
00:11:41one, which we intend to put our chickens over here.
00:11:44Unaware the homestead fowl would face this level of weather threat when the rainies originally arrived.
00:11:52I'm looking at a bunch of ducks.
00:11:54Yeah.
00:11:55We're mostly relying on the ducks for our meat source.
00:11:59Matt tackled another imminent and grave threat.
00:12:04The predators out here are relentless.
00:12:07In the morning, you'll go out and see that your ducks have half of their head missing.
00:12:13While I'm here, I've got to make sure as much as possible that they're going to be safe.
00:12:18A little good news, a little bad news.
00:12:22Yes, it does seem like Matt's hoop coop did protect the ducks from predators in the summer.
00:12:28But it does seem like the winters in Wyoming have been pretty hard on the chickens and the ducks.
00:12:38We need a better structure to protect them year round.
00:12:42How cold does it get here in Wyoming, this part?
00:12:45Average teens overnight, but we can get 30 below with no wind chill.
00:12:51There's some hard nights where we worry about how many we're going to lose.
00:12:55When's the last time a duck died in this area over here?
00:12:58Just that most recent rain event.
00:13:00It doesn't dry out.
00:13:03Because on bare ground, they'd never get dry.
00:13:06Well, I'll be honest with you, I'm looking at some wet ducks right now.
00:13:12After listening to these homesteaders walking around for a few minutes, I think it's pretty clear that it's kind of all about food.
00:13:20We have to fix the water problems on this property so they can grow food and raise crops.
00:13:26And we also have to make it completely safe for all the livestock here.
00:13:31Otherwise, there's no food and there's no water.
00:13:38Okay, guys.
00:13:39It snowed 10 inches a week ago.
00:13:42Yeah.
00:13:43I don't think we're going to be planting any food while we're here.
00:13:45Right.
00:13:46So what are we going to do?
00:13:47Obviously, the elephant in the room is, what are we going to do with this water?
00:13:51Yeah.
00:13:52Right?
00:13:53That might not be the best for plants and it might not be the best for the animals on the homestead.
00:13:58And the owners of the homestead refuse to drink it.
00:14:01Mm-hmm.
00:14:02So we've got our work cut out for us.
00:14:03Yeah.
00:14:04I learned this from Matt.
00:14:06If chickens are happy, you'll get more eggs.
00:14:09It sounds corny, but it's true.
00:14:12They've got food, water, they're warm, they're safe.
00:14:15You're going to get more egg production.
00:14:17And if we did build a new building on this homestead where the ducks would be warmer, drier, safer, then maybe the chickens could rent a room in that same structure.
00:14:30There's only one word for that building.
00:14:33It's four letters and it starts with a B.
00:14:37What is it?
00:14:38Barn.
00:14:39Barn.
00:14:40Okay.
00:14:41When Marty first presented the barn idea to me, I just, it was like a simple solution that had just never really been addressed.
00:14:51It was exciting and surprising to even consider that.
00:14:56A barn is a major component of infrastructure.
00:14:59If we can do something about this water and be able to use that well fully, like huge, these are huge, huge things for us.
00:15:06This family has a lot of plans.
00:15:09I want to lasso them, rein them in, and have them design a barn.
00:15:16And they're going to draw the plans.
00:15:19It's a little overwhelming, but I trust you.
00:15:22All right.
00:15:23Pick that location.
00:15:29Hold on.
00:15:30You guys, when you set these blocks, get them level.
00:15:32That log over the top, that could kill somebody.
00:15:35So think about how you're bracing them.
00:15:38Coming in.
00:15:39Look out.
00:15:48In the Black Hills of Wyoming, Marty waits for water test results.
00:15:57But time is of the essence.
00:16:00So he, Jamie, and Jessica.
00:16:02Who wants to build a barn?
00:16:04Yeah!
00:16:05I love you!
00:16:06Focus first on a warm, safe home for the animals.
00:16:10Where?
00:16:11Right up here.
00:16:12Right up there.
00:16:13I'll follow you.
00:16:14All right.
00:16:16Winter's right around the corner, and these homesteaders are not prepared.
00:16:20I'm thinking that if all of us put our heads together, we can build a barn and bring multiple animals into it where, I'm confident, even though I'll be gone, those animals can survive and maybe even thrive during a long, cold, windy Wyoming winter.
00:16:41All right, so guys, let's talk a little bit.
00:16:44Why am I standing here, please?
00:16:45I think this is a great spot to build in a bank barn.
00:16:48Lower levels dug in.
00:16:50The earth will keep it warm.
00:16:52A bank barn is traditionally a two-story structure built into a hillside or bank in order to take advantage of the natural landscape for infrastructure, offering door accessibility on two levels.
00:17:07Building into the earth also harnesses geothermal energy that provides natural heat to the structure, which is critical for keeping animals warm in colder climates.
00:17:19All right, I hear everything you're saying.
00:17:23Sure.
00:17:24My main thing is, it's a long ways for power.
00:17:26Yeah.
00:17:27And then water.
00:17:28What are we doing for water?
00:17:29If we build this building, these are the things we've got to figure out.
00:17:33A couple years ago, I was right here in Wyoming trying to get water out of a 1,000-foot-deep well just to the house.
00:17:42But now, we've got to figure out how to get that water safely underground to the barn.
00:17:47That's going to require a trench.
00:17:49At the same time, we're trying to clean up the water for both the house and the barn.
00:17:55If I think about getting this passive heat from the sun on the shortest day of the year, December 21st, so does that mean that we could take out some of these trees right there?
00:18:06Yeah.
00:18:07A few of those trees would be fine.
00:18:08Yeah.
00:18:09Because I'm not going to be happy putting a barn somewhere where I'm going to be in shade in December.
00:18:13And, you know, if their summer runs right down the hill, that's perfect.
00:18:17Bring them up here in the winter, take advantage of the sun and heat, and take them down into the shade in the summertime.
00:18:23You know, when the rainies came, there was such an acute need for what we ended up building and where we ended up building it because of the time of year.
00:18:33And it was built for what we had then.
00:18:36So a winter barn is just an amazing idea to be able to move them up, give release to the summer spaces, and vice versa.
00:18:43We're also talking about moving the chickens.
00:18:46The same thing I saw two years ago.
00:18:49While Marty's goal now is to make sure the family's protein sources get enough sun to survive the winter,
00:18:56their original challenge was the brutal summer when the problem was too much sun.
00:19:02We need to talk.
00:19:03Yeah.
00:19:04I think these ducks are in the wrong spot.
00:19:06Why?
00:19:07They have no shade.
00:19:08Okay.
00:19:09Here's the truth bomb.
00:19:10You ready for it?
00:19:11What's great about that structure right there is you guys built it so it could be moved.
00:19:18Yes.
00:19:19It's two skids and then framed floor.
00:19:21Where the ducks are right now is not safe.
00:19:25They are out in the sun.
00:19:27It's way too hot.
00:19:29Yeah.
00:19:30Let's go.
00:19:31Let's get them cooled down.
00:19:34The best and fastest way to get these ducks moved is to just throw them all in.
00:19:38The duck parlor and move everything over at the same time.
00:19:43Look at them go.
00:19:44There we go.
00:19:45Slow down.
00:19:46Let them go in.
00:19:47Good job.
00:19:48Good job.
00:19:49We'll see you on the other side.
00:19:53It is 105 degrees and inside that parlor it could be 5 to 10 degrees hotter.
00:20:02The only risk that I see and it's a big one is if a strap breaks then you have all these sitting ducks inside a hot box with no pen to go to and that can't happen.
00:20:14Whoa.
00:20:15Moving the chickens.
00:20:16What's your input on that?
00:20:21Not too far away?
00:20:22No.
00:20:23It shouldn't be too far away.
00:20:24I mean the kids walk this the rainy road all the time.
00:20:28It's called the rainy road?
00:20:29Yeah it is.
00:20:30Oh wow.
00:20:31Of course we need the barn on rainy road.
00:20:32Wait a minute.
00:20:33Didn't you work on it too?
00:20:34Yeah.
00:20:35Clint slash rainy road.
00:20:36How can we say...
00:20:37Oh wait.
00:20:38How can we say Clint first?
00:20:39Oh sorry.
00:20:40Sorry.
00:20:41I'm teasing.
00:20:42The Clint rainy road.
00:20:43Okay.
00:20:44Now there's one thing right now.
00:20:45How can we say, jump back to Clint first?
00:20:46Oh sorry.
00:20:47I'm teasing.
00:20:48The Clint rainy road.
00:20:49Okay.
00:20:50we need the barn on rainy road wait a minute didn't you work on it too oh yeah
00:20:54how can we say oh wait how can we say clint first oh sorry sorry i'm teasing the clint rainy road
00:21:03okay now another thing do me a favor right now the four of us are going to stand on the corners
00:21:09where are the front two corners mom and dad me and you will be on the back
00:21:13how big can you go come into about 24 20 24 right about there and then is that don't look at me
00:21:21look at the sun yeah look at your property yeah like another thing i mean predators when's the
00:21:30last time you guys saw a bear here two summers ago when's the last time you saw a mountain lion in
00:21:34this area a week ago when's the last time you saw a coyote or heard one yesterday so those are all
00:21:41really bad answers wyoming is home to one of the largest predator populations in all the lower 48
00:21:49due to its diverse ecosystem in addition to being one of only a handful of states with both grizzlies
00:21:57and black bears the region's wolves mountain lions coyotes weasels venomous snakes and birds of prey
00:22:06such as eagles hawks and owls leave livestock under constant attack from both land and air
00:22:14just have to keep that in mind when we build it yeah we'll dig this material out we'll broadcast it
00:22:22out across there and double the size of this footprint okay okay but i like your geothermal
00:22:27idea of robbing some heat from the ground being in the bank uh but we have to think about predators
00:22:34we got to think about water we got to think about power to protect the black family's livestock from
00:22:41extreme winter weather marty will first carve the structure's foundation into the hillside making use
00:22:48of the geothermal warmth from the earth then using timber from the homestead he will build out the
00:22:55exterior framing making sure to maximize the passive heat from the sun year round then with the black
00:23:03family's input he will build individual holding spaces for all the homestead's livestock tailor-made for
00:23:10their needs to increase survivability as well as production and finally he will install a reinforced
00:23:18metal roof to protect against heavy snow and extreme hail storms
00:23:29to know that this barn will be properly insulated and have the ability to take care of my animals all
00:23:35winter and not have to worry about it that's i mean that's that's amazing that's much more production
00:23:42that much more ability to thrive out here
00:23:54go up there uh three feet mark 20 and here i come thank you
00:24:01so marty um really did throw us a curve ball we had no idea that maybe a barn would be on the table
00:24:08and it's like the perfect thing when marty explained that and the relationship of that barn
00:24:14and using it in the winter because we're set up for summer where we are it it all made so much sense
00:24:27i'm kind of like you kind of shocked and embarrassed that you didn't think of it but
00:24:30that's what you get out of something like this marty bringing back his expertise and his perspective
00:24:36totally unexpected but as soon as he said i'm like that is it that that's totally what we need right
00:24:41now all right i'm not sure it's been an hour since we talked about build the barn here and that's what
00:24:48got done so far yeah stuff can happen right yeah if you have a plan
00:24:57okay so on this side is where we're dreaming big we are excited to add a dairy cow to the farm
00:25:06okay hold on you guys are struggling with the animals that you already have
00:25:20have you had a chance to look at a few trees you might donate to this
00:25:23barn build on the black family's wyoming homestead there's a couple of big ones back in there and
00:25:29they're all within walking distance marty makes jamie and jody the master planners of their re-rescue
00:25:36okay you start walking i'll go get us all meet you there sounds good somewhere up on that hill
00:25:41yep you'll see me there thanks where we're going right here
00:25:51how many do you need well it'd be nice to have at least four okay yeah i got four about this size
00:25:57marked out through here so that's good news this tree right perfect i mean
00:26:06i don't want to cut a tree down but you have 40 acres
00:26:09nope and this tree is going to be put to good use right yeah yeah let's see
00:26:17where it wants to fall i might get cut up so this could be a little dangerous
00:26:21this is one of those trees you can't predict let's see if it'll fall straight towards the
00:26:25barn that'd be yeah it'll be less work and be that much further why don't you go over to that next
00:26:30tree and that's probably going to be safe okay then we'll uh think about lengths and things like
00:26:36and things like that sure okay everybody happy yeah you sure yeah all right i'll ask him that in four
00:26:44days oh here we go i would have never suggested that we could build a barn in four days unless
00:26:53i was standing in the middle of a 40 acre homestead that's heavily wooded and this one is
00:26:59one two three four five two years ago misty turned to materials found off the homestead when it comes
00:27:19to building a greenhouse glass can get expensive so we've scored about 10 doors that obviously need
00:27:28some repurposing but when it comes to free you can't really beat it you know i definitely love
00:27:33repurposing things i love the history that's contained in old objects i really like this old
00:27:40firefighter sticker on this door leave it i'm gonna i'm totally gonna it um it reminds me of jamie's dad
00:27:48oh yeah jamie's dad was a fireman after jamie's parents died i know jamie felt a lot of responsibility
00:27:57to do things right here i know he looked up to his dad a lot it's pretty cool so we'll kind of
00:28:03we'll leave it on there we'll make it kind of a centerpiece for jamie this is really crazy we found
00:28:10all these windows at the salvage yard that matt went to as we're cleaning the windows we find this
00:28:16oh wow that is it was like your dad wanted to say hi i thought what a sweet reminder of your dad that's
00:28:26touching that's right sorry no you're good
00:28:32i wish they were here i'm sorry they're not but i know that you guys will be here i know you have a
00:28:39long long future ahead of you can't pry me away from here now no one two three push and now run
00:28:58thank you very much
00:28:59we're gonna use this log as beams you just saved thousands of dollars that's awesome where's clay let's
00:29:12go we'll leave it long come on in we'll grab it here we go i guess we'll go down further everyone is
00:29:22going to get a little crazy but you can stay there for now where's the next tree oh yeah let's go
00:29:29let's go
00:29:30my attitude's really changed since the first time that marty was here
00:29:37i came out from under a shadow you know boys have a tendency to feel that their fathers
00:29:43are 100 feet tall and when i lost him i didn't want to mess with his homestead
00:29:50but it's so i'm i'm excited to do what i want to do
00:29:53what clint doesn't know is i got my saw stuck i'm too embarrassed to tell him
00:30:02so when this moves maybe i get it back everything's fine clint
00:30:06you'll never know if a tree falls in the forest yeah and you don't hear it that's because you're not
00:30:19building a barn
00:30:26the pace that everyone's moving at is so incredible you know we went from find a spot
00:30:32to a couple hours later we had trees down we had a pad flattened out to grade we had everything
00:30:39we need to go to get a jump start on tomorrow and it was it was only two hours i can't wait to see
00:30:43what a whole day tomorrow brings
00:30:53it's day two on the black family's homestead and this morning's freeze is a reminder that the wicked
00:31:00wyoming winter is right around the corner
00:31:03well good morning morning too building a barn you know family and i were up all night trying to
00:31:15decide what kind of footprint we wanted inside the space what we dreamt before we fell asleep all night
00:31:23so it's been it's been pretty amazing
00:31:27okay so we have the new area for the ducks and the chickens that'll work on this side is
00:31:38where we're dreaming big with our future we are excited to add a dairy cow to the farm okay hold on
00:31:46did i hear you say milk cow yeah but it seems like you guys are struggling with the animals that you
00:31:53already have this couple is overwhelmed i get it at some point these homesteaders need to stop and
00:32:03listen because my job is to protect both life and property and on this homestead in that order when i
00:32:14hear milk call i think about how much work it is you guys ready for that
00:32:23how are you nice to see you again you guys are like taller everything i do isn't for me anymore
00:32:33gonna have to go down disa for my kids to be the third generation to work this homestead
00:32:42that's what i'm doing this for
00:32:51when i grew up i i had a dairy cow five and six o'clock in the morning milking that cow before
00:32:58i walked believe it or not a mile and a half almost to the bus stop and back every night that
00:33:05was my life so when i hear milk call i think about how much work it is yeah you got you guys ready for
00:33:10that yeah well we homeschool and it's going to be a great teaching tool for them and an opportunity to
00:33:15learn like where their cheese they eat comes from they were excited to start milking years ago at this
00:33:21point your kids yeah obviously last time we were here no one was talking about bringing a milk cow to
00:33:29the property so this time around looking at these animals and listening how they're going to bring more
00:33:37i think we need to build a barn big enough to get the job done all right so go right to those concrete
00:33:45blocks so look where she's standing me that's 20. we just built one of these in georgia and it was
00:33:53really hard in a week a week to build a 24 by 24. okay so every foot's gonna count you have a pick a good
00:34:01pick yeah we need it we need to pick a couple shovels and then we'll get this to grade and we'll
00:34:05put these four corners in and we'll start building okay thank you
00:34:12when the rainies first visited they set me up for success and i took that success and i ran with it
00:34:20unfortunately to have a hail event or any weather event destroy your garden or lose some livestock
00:34:28i can't rely on it to feed my family and i know that marty's barn is gonna stop what i thought would
00:34:35be inevitable losses if we had a hard winter it's just a great feeling to know that my animals are in
00:34:41a spot that they're safe we can pull it off but we're gonna need help because we don't have the manpower
00:34:50and i'm only here four days fortunately jamie managed to gather some volunteers what's going
00:34:59on here who who's this that's my cousin scott scott who larson scott larson molly mcdowell molly
00:35:07yes molly mcdowell that's a good name my wife's name's molly awesome never met a molly i didn't like
00:35:13what state is number one when it comes to being the least populated boom wyoming
00:35:26the good news is we've got a couple extra helpers on this homestead and now it is possible we could
00:35:33build a barn in four days while marty relies on the help of friends and family for the barn build
00:35:41two years ago i had something weird happen there there's there's tight spots another homestead
00:35:52necessity required some outside assistance at 500 feet there seems to be an obstruction if we can't get
00:36:02a pump down this well then we're in big trouble and so we've had to tap into the locals
00:36:11that'll work how deep are the wells normally in this area in this general area we're anywhere
00:36:18from 80 feet to 500 feet i should tell you this a few hundred feet down there was a restriction
00:36:26that might be a problem if we send a pump down there on top of that there's no well log that anybody can
00:36:33find yeah a lot of unknowns on this because it wasn't ever finished well you have no idea what you're
00:36:39really doing here you're basically saving a family that has some serious issues trying to carry on their
00:36:46parents dream we know very little about this well i think there's water in there but we're never gonna
00:36:54know until we drop a well pump down the well casing so we are in your debt well i'm proud to help well
00:37:04what do you say we get started all i think i need is a ditch for a pitless okay i'll jump in that excavator
00:37:10i really appreciate it yep
00:37:15who's ready to go to work now with much needed outside help marty prepares newly felled trees for
00:37:23use as the structure's main supports i'm ready to grab two logs for the front and the log for the top
00:37:32the first job i ever had wasn't choking little logs like this on the olympic peninsula
00:37:39we had trees that were not six feet not eight feet but up to 12 foot across
00:37:44then i moved to alaska at the age of 18 and in southeast alaska the trees were 8 and 10 feet as well
00:37:55i've always loved trees i don't like cutting trees but i do love working with trees
00:38:03every homestead it seems like we're either cutting a danger tree and that's how it's done
00:38:10sometimes we're planting trees and many of those homesteads are saving me money because they have
00:38:18trees this size that we can manage we can maneuver we can use as structural elements in a construction
00:38:26like a barn a pine tree pull barn we're coming in look out
00:38:39so now that i've got the logs ready to stand up it's time to put the black family to work what do
00:38:45you got let's see what you got your building's going to sit on it so get it flat in the bottom
00:38:51why would we go to all that effort just for a foundation well think about it if it's not done
00:38:58properly the thing will crumble this is the concrete pilaster that they brought out here
00:39:07obviously it was meant to receive a nice little four by four straight from the store
00:39:14that ain't happening out here stores a long ways away and it costs money we got trees so we'll just
00:39:20produce a nice little tenon we'll drop it in this square and it's as simple as making a
00:39:26a square peg go in a square hole boom
00:39:36we're going to set it on the square to square okay and then you're going to hold it up you have to be
00:39:41in there with hands on okay it's not that big of a deal now but when we set look behind you yeah that
00:39:46log over the top that could kill somebody so think about how you're bracing them okay
00:39:51bring him in let's go hold on is there is there a drill in your hand are there screws in your hand
00:40:01is there a two by four brace in your hand
00:40:08hold on you guys you don't have this you don't have this perfectly level you guys when you set these
00:40:13blocks get them level level as a sum biscuit spin it towards the other way other way please okay
00:40:23come on down quick
00:40:30okay i'm cutting loose now listen big guy i would dig a hole for that just kick it in there just so it can't
00:40:36go we're going to put a thousand pound log on it is going to fall on me or we're good we'll get you
00:41:01we're coming in look out
00:41:06done now we'll see if it'll stay clint see if it'll stay
00:41:22when you're working fast cutting down trees dragging them over to the build site grabbing them with an x
00:41:29balancing them fitting them in place the margin for error narrows
00:41:36people can get hurt
00:41:39perfect this family they've been paying attention they are listening and collectively we are actually
00:41:47building a very solid and precise post and beam structure all right that was a really really
00:41:54good work for logs and chainsaws chains bells whistles and yo-yos that said let's we'll drill it put some
00:42:01rebar in it on this homestead we are trying to build a barn in a couple days we're getting there
00:42:10but the pendulum is swinging over into this area that i feel on every homestead we're running out of
00:42:17time we've got to get it finished before winter let's go pull it left pull your way a little bit
00:42:23it up done thank you come get another one
00:42:26well thanks for helping us with the logging that said when we started i didn't even know
00:42:40we were we were going to talk about bringing a milk cow to the property so right now we're going
00:42:47to need more materials than what are laying around this homestead we're going to need a lot of lumber
00:42:53it seems like it doesn't matter if we're in alaska texas wyoming it doesn't matter where we go
00:43:01there's good people and those good people sometimes donate
00:43:09look around turn around please this south dakota lumber yard donated three loads of lumber i certainly
00:43:18give them an appreciation of them helping you which helps me too so three bunks of building supplies
00:43:27are going to help us build a barn so grateful that's something else i mean that's incredible
00:43:34you know having stuff donated like that is i don't have words just i don't have words
00:43:41it's jamie's a generous guy with the little that we have so to have other people he's generous to
00:43:49everybody always well you know what i was about to say i guess all we would ask is to pay it forward but
00:43:56i don't need to say it based on what your wife just said it sounds like you're already that guy you're
00:44:01already those people that was very emotional for us you know jamie is always giving he's always been
00:44:09generous but we've kind of kept to ourselves a little bit up here so it's hard to think that
00:44:14anybody knows or cares on that note thanks to to this generous neighbor
00:44:31what's going on here every time i look up there's more people who wait a minute i know you guys
00:44:38these are ours how are you good how are you you guys are like taller yeah a little bit there's a
00:44:50saying and it goes like this a family that plays together stays together got two people here we can
00:44:58start laying out an eight foot wall please how about this one a family that works together can build a
00:45:06barn in a couple days doesn't rhyme but
00:45:14let's get lined up
00:45:17heading in we're in the groove now line it up with your wall kick it out good job send back a look at it
00:45:25this barn is gonna help with birds in the winter time it makes me sad seeing them all wet and cold in
00:45:31there so i'm excited for them to have a new warm house ducks are incredibly adaptable birds while wild ducks
00:45:41typically migrate south for the winter domesticated ducks are uniquely equipped for colder weather with
00:45:48water shedding feathers covering a warming layer of down plumage however no domestic bird can survive
00:45:57prolonged weather exposure and without the ability to stay dry they risk hypothermia frostbite or even death
00:46:05is everybody happy so far yeah you see the the beginnings of what could be a cool building yeah
00:46:14we're getting it so what i thought on day one is what i'm looking at right now we wanted to move
00:46:22to a place where we got sun and here we are back in the street so i'm going to start right now and let's
00:46:28see if we can get the sun to shine on you guys i'll just cut all the trees that you said to cut and
00:46:34apparently you've done the math and if you got sun here i'm happy
00:46:48nice and then now the ones he's cutting will be for later in the winter yeah yeah
00:46:54you know before the rainies first visited i was i wasn't in a good place i wasn't
00:47:05i wasn't okay from what happened after i lost my parents i wasn't i wasn't prepared to
00:47:16lead my family in a homestead lifestyle i knew what i wanted
00:47:20it just every setback was a mountain that i couldn't climb
00:47:27in this stretch jamie picked two spots and put his parents ashes in it so this stretch is super
00:47:34important to us he comes up here like on the anniversary do you mind if i ask how they passed away
00:47:41um uh it was a fire and then we found out that it was double suicide and the only thing that they
00:47:51left us like as a message was that they didn't have any hope they think it was the stress of two years
00:47:58of trying to get this place built just some sort of mental overload are you kidding me no i'm not at
00:48:07all jamie what blames himself for not being here to help them and not knowing what was going on with
00:48:14them that that could happen if you knew what we've been through
00:48:20just to get here we need to get past this we you know that's why jamie needs to own this and do this
00:48:35that's why it's so important for us
00:48:38before the rainies came and rescued us it it felt like this was more jamie's parents place still
00:48:46and that jamie couldn't really fully own it like he didn't wasn't giving himself permission
00:48:52it's the craziest thing i've ever heard on any homestead it's not even bad luck it's like
00:48:58trauma oh my god if you were jamie and jody i couldn't even imagine what that feels like jamie has
00:49:06said that he inherited all of those pressures from his parents yeah because his parents are
00:49:14here his parents are here these homesteaders out of everyone we've met they might be the ones who
00:49:20need them us most listen it's really about are you ready to homestead can we fix the trauma do you
00:49:33believe in the dream i've seen 40 acre homestead that you own with trees that need to be thinned
00:49:41out that's true this is a proven stove that will hold a fire all night long besides just being a money
00:49:47saver the fact that it's um marty rainy approved makes it a little more confidence in it marty gives
00:49:54fatherly wisdom that i haven't had you know he basically told me that this was my homestead
00:50:01and i mean sure on paper it was but just to hear somebody else say that like i really appreciated
00:50:09that more than i probably or i know i could have told him especially when he was here the first time
00:50:14cool thing about cutting firewood it heats you twice that's true once when you're cutting it
00:50:19oh i look forward to chopping wood i chopped wood as a kid
00:50:32you know i'm older and with that everything i do isn't for me anymore
00:50:39for my kids to be the third generation in the future to work this homestead that's what i'm
00:50:49doing this for i'm you know now i'm trying to get them a leg up so they can go further than i ever
00:50:56have or anybody has on this land especially you guys got sun yeah i think it looks pretty good
00:51:09good morning everyone um i am so spent i'm so dizzied what's happened the last few days
00:51:23i am so grateful to have been able to spend so much more time with marty and work with him i'm so
00:51:28thankful to our friends and family molly and scott that came out so much has been done but there's so
00:51:33much left to finish so i'm also incredibly nervous i haven't heard a whole lot about what we're doing
00:51:40in terms of water treatment our water is not great for a lot of things but i'm hoping that we've got a
00:51:48solution see where we're at and know what we're doing with that too so we went to a bona fide laboratory
00:51:58for a very thorough test of your water and as you can see here there's some good news right yeah
00:52:06arsenic barium cadmium looks fine right awesome lead mercury that would be bad in your water
00:52:14but you can see it's satisfactory right and then we come to a selenium a mineral and look at this down
00:52:20here this is actually a warning health risk exists the short version goes like this water in its purest form is
00:52:33soft but once it enters the water cycle it picks up minerals making it hard it's not safe to drink
00:52:44it's not safe to put on your plants and it's not safe to feed to your ducks and chickens
00:53:02health risk exists consider water treatment and or alternative water sources
00:53:09the side effects of this would be your animals maybe having stomach issues stomach issues even humans
00:53:17but quite frankly
00:53:21wyoming is famous for many natural wonders like the red rocks of seminole the devil's tower and
00:53:28yellowstone national park but these surface level geological features are evidence of some of the
00:53:35the most mineral rich and varied soil in the united states while consuming most minerals can be
00:53:42beneficial in moderation excessively high levels of some like iron calcium and selenium can wreak havoc
00:53:50on crops livestock and even humans leading to muscle spasms nausea respiratory malfunction and in extreme
00:53:59cases heart and kidney failure now we know what we're dealing with yeah
00:54:09i showed up here a few years ago thinking we were heroes we we got water out of a well that was drilled 20
00:54:15years ago last time i was here i thought you know it was a good day we drove away i drank the water it looked
00:54:22clear to me yeah but two years later we're seeing the ducks might even uh have symptoms yeah from the
00:54:31frankly contaminants or too high of certain minerals in the water and we can't use it in the house or
00:54:37for ourselves at all that's yours that's your water the question is what are we going to do about it we're
00:54:43going to have to in very limited time see if we can address that problem
00:54:52i don't like the well results and
00:55:01we we got to change that and
00:55:03i trust marty and this crew to help me figure out a solution
00:55:12otherwise
00:55:13night's one on the negative i think we can get it done
00:55:19it looks like you have the trimmers now we'll put the the sill plates and cripples for our
00:55:24two windows and this wall is close to being done i like it
00:55:27while marty works on a solution for the homestead's tainted water supply never have your hand over
00:55:35here construction must continue on the all-in-one barn have it away i'm looking at the scope of work
00:55:43on this homestead if we're going to get some of this other work done we might have to teach that next
00:55:49generation of homesteaders i.e their children notice how my hand's not right here yeah bam
00:55:57it's back here because i've nailed myself before and i remember it guess where i was i was on the
00:56:04arctic ocean in the oil fields middle of winter i walked up to a guy that was six foot seven a
00:56:12superintendent and i said hey i got a little problem yeah there was this much of a nail sticking out
00:56:18he thought i was joking but when he realized that i'd taken a nail that long bam shot it in
00:56:27that hand the six foot six man fainted you'll only do it once yeah are you gonna nail i wanted i like
00:56:37your style here we go this wall's looking good just today i learned with marty how to use a nail gun
00:56:45um that was really fun it's way bigger of a tool that i'm used to using at most i've used like the
00:56:53drill even yep you're good diesel was excited to use the nail gun that barn is really gonna
00:57:00when i think about it i mean it'll benefit me a lot but it's gonna benefit the kids the most
00:57:05good job very good job don't nail yourself one day this is probably gonna be our house that's all good
00:57:13so it's really helpful and exciting to learn all of these things that are going to be useful in the
00:57:20future down set one two three while the barn gives the black family new hope and motivation for the
00:57:31future of the homestead two years ago it was matt's protective shelter design that gave a much needed
00:57:39boost to jody's sister jessica here we go so we don't really have time to waste okay we're gonna
00:57:47build a hoop coop real fast okay set it down step on it and then go up in the middle just like this
00:57:57it's gonna be great help to have these on our property it's gonna get those ducks some protection
00:58:08all right push it up in the middle working with the rainies i'm feeling
00:58:13a lot better about what we can accomplish here on the homestead
00:58:19it gives me hope you know to keep going and chasing this crazy dream we've got here
00:58:27there's kind of the square outline of the building is that what we were thinking about it's looking
00:58:35good as the exterior of the barn takes shape marty tasks them with finalizing the interior layout
00:58:44let's talk dad what's the plan that's going to make it easier you got it we got to weigh in
00:58:49or agree with dad who probably does know best okay father what do we got all right so
00:58:54we got the stall for maybe a new cow and that's going to be 10 foot from that corner yep um then
00:59:03we got the two runs for you guys for the chickens and ducks and here's your favorite part we're going
00:59:07to make it wide enough that we can actually fit a wheelbarrow into where we're scooping instead
00:59:12of carrying scoopfuls of manure we'll put it in a wheelbarrow and take it out way easier
00:59:16yeah chickens are in the front ducks are in the back right um these guys are messier and it's further
00:59:26to move the crap should they be in the front or not you make sense i like that i'm just thinking out
00:59:32loud because i've had dogs i appreciate it yeah marty building in a barn in such a way that
00:59:39is easy to expand upon and explaining to me and showing me how to expand means that he has confidence
00:59:47in me and that how do you not get motivated by that go inside there and see if it's big enough
00:59:54is the door big enough where the where where's the pins go we got to know marty definitely is giving us
01:00:02the ability to bring more life to this homestead um both in the animals but also just the security
01:00:07of passing this on to the third generation and hopefully the fourth and fifth get it to the
01:00:13stud cable you know we've made so many little buildings but i think when you see a barn on a
01:00:18homestead it's foundational and i think the kids even can sense that like oh we're this is it where
01:00:24this is we're really doing it i like this guys i like it
01:00:27on the black family's wyoming homestead glenn let's go
01:00:43the family continues to frame out the walls for the barn but the troubling news of contaminated water
01:00:50hangs over the entire rescue i look at this beautiful 40 acres and it looks like it's a national
01:00:58park but it's one thing to build structures you can move a mountain of dirt but it really means nothing
01:01:05if there's not one drop of clean water when we got the water test back from the well we realized the
01:01:14fix would be to install between the well and the water tank at the house a reverse osmosis system
01:01:23marty's 21st century solution a water purification system between the well and the homestead's main
01:01:31system reverse osmosis is a process that uses a semi-permeable membrane that allows water molecules
01:01:38to travel through while blocking larger ionic compounds like salts and minerals this will leave
01:01:45the black family with a tank of filtered water ready to use for the main house garden and time willing
01:01:53the all-in-one barn water comes in from the well makes its way into the ro system down into
01:02:03my sister now i've got to figure out how i'm going to get water 300 feet from the well and how are we
01:02:14going to power this up because we'd have to provide heat not so much for the chickens but for those ducks
01:02:21you kids want to be packing water uphill i will if i have to and that's a great answer by the way i'm
01:02:28impressed that said we put a tape measure on this it's almost 300 feet from here all the way down to
01:02:35your water line and the question on the table is is it worth our while and about all we have left is
01:02:42a day and a half if that we don't have that much time so do you want a water line from the house to
01:02:48the barn yes or no yes yes huxley what do you think yeah who will be doing the bulk of the chores
01:02:55we'll share it yeah everybody yeah so hopefully if we do get a water line here it's going to make
01:03:02it easier on everybody isn't that the goal all right that said you understand we have a
01:03:08unfinished barn right and so clint's going to be on this till the end can so i'm losing my right hand man
01:03:16but i've got my right hand woman times two times three show clint exactly where you want it show us the
01:03:24trees that have to come out of the way and we have to get started right this second let's hit it come
01:03:30on come on come on animals need water so right now we're thinking about digging a water line from the
01:03:38water tank up to the new barn which is under construction that's going to require a trench
01:03:43deep six seven feet so the water line doesn't freeze it's got to come from the house all the way up to
01:03:49the barn i just try coming through here yeah if you can miss that big cedar and the like log that's
01:03:55kind of supporting the road just right down by that post to protect the water line from the northern
01:04:01wyoming elements clint will dig a 300 foot long six foot deep trench to access the geothermal warmth beneath
01:04:09the local frost line while strategically avoiding the old growth trees that dot the hillside as well as
01:04:16underground root systems once done they will install an auxiliary water pump connecting the homestead's
01:04:24main water storage to the all-in-one barn on the hill i'm a little hesitant because the last time we dug
01:04:32a trench here we unearth some bigger problems
01:04:52oh man what's going on oh we found a hole
01:05:03you got one big hole there what am i looking at looks like a cave well i would say you get the
01:05:10sinkhole homestead could fall in that hole it might be an issue we don't know how far back it was okay
01:05:18well i'm going to crawl in there and scope it out you got to hook that on yep you got a flashlight i'm
01:05:28gonna take it careful down there and i'm gonna go in there is it you think it'd be okay it's sketchy
01:05:35well we got to find out clint we have to we have to work right there you don't want to go i'll go i
01:05:40like this guy okay we're going in ready
01:05:45do we have a shovel or a pick yeah want that shovel just in case marty gets buried
01:05:52you ready let's go down slowly
01:05:53real slow
01:05:59slow clint if i get buried just follow this yellow strap
01:06:03slow please
01:06:13stop
01:06:13looks like a big washout take me up please
01:06:29i've never seen anything like that before well it's a good thing it don't go farther down
01:06:33well i wouldn't want to be living over that hole does that mean there's another one this whole
01:06:41country is littered with caves so who knows
01:06:48the extensive caves in the black hills remain a threat
01:06:52digging in the wrong spot could spell disaster for clint and the homestead
01:06:58it's scary to say i don't want a grand canyon left on my property after everybody has to pack up and
01:07:06leave it's so nerve-wracking
01:07:12just watching clint do what he does in the tight fit to run that line is so amazing to watch
01:07:42okay as you can see rocky
01:07:46and almost looks like there's some minerals right here
01:07:50this ditch was all dirt it was all clay it was all kind of red rock if you will
01:07:55schist mica maybe but look at this something over here
01:07:59so as i'm walking down the trench to make sure it's deep enough
01:08:02i look at the walls of the trench i see a white chalky thing bleeding out of the ground
01:08:08what is it selenium in harmony with the water test results i'm hoping
01:08:17that our filtration system ultimately will take care of that problem for this homestead
01:08:24last morning i'm a little wore out i'm a little tired still excited the fact that the kids worked
01:08:44yesterday they got to see how something like that gets built fast after everybody left and it quieted down
01:08:52my son asked me a million questions before bed on how what was what how did it work why did it work
01:08:59this has been amazing
01:09:03it's marty's last day on the black family homestead let's do this get two buys and a screw gun for the back
01:09:11i got it grab another one
01:09:11grab another one as he and the family charge forward installing rafters to support a reinforced
01:09:18metal roof designed to withstand extreme hail fall it's gonna have to go down disa
01:09:26you're gonna have to push it way down babe seeing the kids out there working with everybody was
01:09:33so cool i mean i i know what my children are capable of
01:09:37they may not know yet but it's good to see them be excited and look forward to this build and what
01:09:44it's going to do for our family and animals hi do you have a 21 and a half inch block in place for them
01:09:50to see all of that activity and the trees coming in and the logs coming in um something they've never
01:09:55experienced so it was super fun i guess let's just lay these three that's going to be two that's going
01:10:01to be eight feet we're going to be halfway there so let's go if it wasn't for the new barn we'd still
01:10:08be dealing with the survival what what was looking to be another winter of hard challenges to do right
01:10:14by your animals and your family because now there's a whole new opportunity to learn what we can be
01:10:20doing here in winter and how how a better space functions all right everybody happy or sad happy happy
01:10:27happy happy joy joy clint how's it going you're amazing i love it i mean look at this
01:10:39frost is like five or six you've got a seven and eight foot deep trench good job time to drop in the
01:10:45drop in the wire not only did we go the extra mile get water to this barn but we're also taking power
01:10:52so we'll probably have a 30 amp breaker at the house we've got some 10 amp wire we're running it 250
01:11:00feet these guys are going to have water they're going to have power they could heat this building
01:11:04this is probably the most significant building on this homestead a couple years ago i met the black
01:11:11family they had no water but they had a well the mission get the water from that well to a tank
01:11:19near their house two years later here we are building another structure a long way from the house
01:11:25digging a trench and trying to get that same water all the way up to a new barn it's like deja vu all over
01:11:35it okay you guys over here family over here please quick bring that hose this homestead is the one
01:11:46where the water issue has been going on for a long time we relate to people that have water problems
01:11:54just trust me so is the well hopeless
01:12:01hear anything
01:12:05i hear something it's coming watch out
01:12:13so that water's coming from your well that's from our well yeah that's our well
01:12:19and shut up are you being serious i don't even know what's happening
01:12:26this is our well don't waste it come here get over here quick dad get over here i'll try it
01:12:34don't waste it all right that's that 900 foot well
01:12:40i don't know what i'm feeling like this is uh i don't think i've ever felt something like this
01:12:48before honestly like i can't i can't even put it into words we don't have to worry about this anymore
01:12:55we can do so much more that we haven't been able to do because this has been a fight always almost 20
01:13:03years i didn't think i'd ever see water come out there we get to benefit from it finally and not just
01:13:09be tortured by it we're free yeah you know that's crazy what would your mom and dad say if they
01:13:17were standing right here right now and saw this i think they'd be just as speechless i think they'd
01:13:22have a hard time thinking you just like i am i wish they could have stayed here to see this
01:13:29tomorrow is a brand new day and a super bright future for this beautiful family as of tonight you
01:13:37have water yes for the first time ever dad wait i didn't know spider spider
01:13:50okay i got myself no one can
01:13:59i got a question for you did you ever think you'd have a barn on this 40 acre homestead i was kind of
01:14:04giving up on the hope did you ever think you'd have potential water going to that definitely not
01:14:09now did you ever think you'd have potential power not anytime soon that's for sure if we uh
01:14:16stay busy keep working it's possible that we can throw a light switch on in this place
01:14:20before we leave okay make sure there's enough wire that'll reach that panel okay thank you very much
01:14:25looking good
01:14:33so we're going to play one hand of blackjack now there's no way we're going to play blackjack a
01:14:39stone's throw from deadwood unless everyone looks the part so here's a hat for you if you're inclined
01:14:46first i'm going to show you uh trick huxley pick a card any card any card good one okay show it to the
01:14:53fam i'll be over here are you done put that card on top the deck okay now watch that card really close
01:15:06now your card went through the deck through the table it's in my hand right now but we're not done
01:15:14because now the cards back up through the table back up through the deck and family is that your card
01:15:24yeah
01:15:27that was amazing
01:15:37get some screws in that it's going to be holding stuff up
01:15:40in the black hills of wyoming come on in the water's fine marty and the family race the sun to finish
01:15:47the all-in-one barn designed to protect the homestead's livestock through increasingly deadly winters
01:15:55trying to build a barn in four days isn't for everybody the window of opportunity to finish this
01:16:01before winter is closing i'll take the nail gun please so we have dug the trench we threw in a
01:16:12water line we also threw in an electrical line backfilled it and there's power and water from the
01:16:19house to the barn but it's getting dark and the barn's not finished i'm going to try to squeeze a little
01:16:26bit more out of this homesteading family and if i can we will take this homestead out of the red
01:16:34with the help of the blacks
01:16:40you know the short duration of this visit from marty
01:16:43is a little concerning but at the same time one in the bottom family bring the door over that
01:16:51excitement and the desire is there we're willing to work
01:16:54you got a screw on you i got screws on me where's the other window
01:17:10it's money uh i gotta do we have to do one more thing with a ladder right over the door you guys i
01:17:15gotta come in
01:17:26come on up
01:17:29i like your style
01:17:35give me a marker you guys just go all the way across it thanks done
01:17:40right
01:18:03how's the doors fit good nice that feels good okay come on guys now is
01:18:10this the wide entry you wanted oh yes okay
01:18:16what's going to happen over here someday over here is our new dairy stall for a new cow
01:18:23we got to talk about a couple things how deep does the snow get here
01:18:27depends three four feet okay look up do you think that that roof will hold the snow
01:18:33yeah we've left you a lot of lumber and there's room
01:18:38left on those posts on both sides to add more okay two by tens if you think you need them
01:18:44i also think that the metal roof will shed so we have that going on
01:18:50all right kids what's going on with the nesting boxes you tell me is it easier now
01:18:54definitely is it cleaner yeah there's a water line to this building there's a 30 amp wire and breaker
01:19:04box on this building all the power you'd ever need in a barn is in this building so yeah you're kind of
01:19:11you're at the cool part i will tell you this right now but after watching this family work
01:19:17as hard as they did on their own barn smiling and fun and together uh i don't feel bad at all
01:19:25we got this for sure and i believe that and thank you let's look at it from the outside
01:19:29one more time before it gets too dark to see it i'm so super proud of everything everybody's learned
01:19:36our ability to be flexible and adaptable at this point uh we've really proven it to see a barn go
01:19:42up that quickly is not anything i've ever experienced i'm pretty amazed i'm pretty stunned
01:19:49it's so transformed our land our structures and what we're going to be able to do
01:19:53look at that building i'm serious that's a good building to be able to have this boost on the
01:20:03homestead just pushes me further towards success you know i was worried going into winter that we
01:20:09were going to have some setbacks maybe some losses but now with how much room we have i can add more
01:20:16livestock and the way marty built the barn i can expand as needed
01:20:21four days ago the black family had lost all hope without the skills or resources to adapt to an
01:20:31increasingly volatile climate the contaminated water supply decimated their garden and the deadly weather
01:20:39and lack of sufficient shelter picked off their only source of protein
01:20:44now the water well is safely filtered and potable which will allow the family to resume their gardening
01:20:54and with the all-in-one passive and solar heated barn built for expanding livestock the black family is
01:21:02it's primed for a successful future
01:21:09but even as the sun sets on his final day look at this right here i got a present for you
01:21:15marty has one last surprise for the black family
01:21:19we went the extra mile and gave it that little special twist and provided a huge catchment tank
01:21:33alongside the barn let's wrestle this thing into the position you want listen no legitimate homesteader is
01:21:41ever gonna say no to water thank you
01:21:53looks good it does in the dark
01:21:58you know what i'm really happy about guys i didn't see you working as a family like this last night
01:22:03i didn't see that they're helping themselves advance this whole dream and i'm like this is legit
01:22:11you guys did a lot that's not something you see every day so as parents they're doing something right
01:22:16i think it's a big deal for marty to tell tell you that he likes your work ethic not just your work ethic
01:22:22but when the kids come out you know he's like okay they get it that's incredibly reassuring
01:22:28okay does this help you big time help isn't the word for it i mean it changes everything
01:22:37and that's the thing i don't think we realize a barn is such a big endeavor
01:22:41we weren't thinking about that not just a barn but a barn with power and water running up to it
01:22:47the opportunities to do things we haven't done before help is not the word
01:22:53i'm not much of a gambler i've never gambled in my life or have i for the last four days
01:23:05i saw a sure bet this is a blast thank you all thank you marty and i did go all in on jamie
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